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Friday, July 12, 2013

Obamacare Alarm Bells

Obamacare:
Whatever Rings Your Bell

No man is an island, entire of itself; every
man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main..I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John
Donne (1572-1631), Devotions upon Emergent
Occasions

Unemployment
report in a nutshell: The Taco Bell that had 30 40 hour workers now has 40 30
hour workers.

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by David Borge, political humorist

Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal says: “ Mark July 3, 2013 as the day that Big Government finally
imploded.” That was the day the administration announced the employer mandate
was delayed a year because of the “complexity of the requirements.”That was how the employer mandate delay rang
Henninger’s alarm bell. He said it was the alarming bell sound
of Big Government finally hitting the wall.

Just 2 days later, on July 5, the administration rang the alarm
bell again that because of “operation barriers”citizens seeking Obamacare subsidies would be able to “self-report” their
incomes to qualify for the health law’s subsidies.In other words, trust big government, and we
will trust you.Ring our bell, and we
will ring yours. even if yours does not ring true.

While this mutual bell-ringing was taking
place,Republicans were saying that the
President could not willy-nilly change the law without consulting Congress and
that he couldn’t delay the employer mandate without simultaneously delaying the
individual mandate because the two mandates were intertwined.

Where the two political parties stood on the health
law,depended on where they sat, and for
whom the bell tolled.

If you were a Democrat, you might try to ring the
public’s bell by saying, “ Sure, Obamacare has not cut costs, or expanded
access, or bettered care – yet.But you
just wait and see, untilthe bell really
starts ringing on October 1, when you sign up for its benefits, which will
finally kick in and starts ringing everybody’s bell.If you are young and healthy, your premiums
may double or triple,but by signing up,
look at what you’ve done, you’ve protected yourself against catastrophe and you’ve
done a service for your country and your president.”

If you were a Republican, the employer mandatd delay rang another bell. They countered, “Don’t be a ding dong.Obamacare has finally cracked the Liberty
Bell,by raising costs, depriving you of
your choice of doctor and health plan,threatening
your personal freedoms, making Big
Brother your zoo keeper, and increasing the national debt for future generations.Ding, ding, ding, dong, dig, dig, dig, deeper, deeper, deeper, into an ever deeper
depths of debt and despair, declareth the doomsayers. This is a Rube Goldberg bell on the verge of shattering at each new
federal pendulum stroke.”

Tweet:The
delay of the employer mandate has set off a series of alarmist bell-ringing on
both sides of the political aisle.

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